He travels to Wilvercombe to monitor the investigation while ostensibly comforting his mother after her loss.

Her son, Henry Weldon, ten years older than his mother's lover and by all appearances a simple and brutish man, is appalled at the prospect of his mother's remarriage to a gigolo, and at his potential loss of inheritance. A series of cipher letters received from an unknown source convinced him that he was being called to return to Russia to take his place as the new rightful Tsar.Īlexis had been engaged to a rich widow in her fifties, Mrs Weldon. Wimsey and Harriet discover that in the period leading up to his death Alexis, an avid reader of Ruritanian romances, had believed himself to be a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. The police tend to the view that Alexis's death was suicide and that he had cut his own throat. The victim is identified as Paul Alexis, a young man of Russian extraction, employed by a Wilvercombe hotel as a professional dancing partner. Unfortunately, the corpse is washed away by the rising tide before she can summon help.Īlerted to the discovery by a friend, Lord Peter Wimsey arrives, and he and Harriet start their investigations. There are no footprints in the sand other than hers and those of the victim. The man's blood is still liquid, from which it is concluded that he had died shortly before she arrived. Harriet takes photographs and collects the razor used in the death, and other personal items. It is also included in the 1987 BBC TV series.ĭuring a hiking holiday on the South West coast of England, the detective novelist Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man lying on an isolated rock on the shore, not far from the resort of Wilvercombe his throat has been cut. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which Harriet Vane appears.

Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L.

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